Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Piccolo, D; Peris, K; Chimenti, S; Argenziano, G; Soyer, HP.
Jumping into the future using teledermoscopy.
Skinmed. 2003; 1(1): 20-24.
Doi: 10.1111/j.1540-9740.2002.01830.x
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- Soyer Hans Peter
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- Abstract:
- BACKGROUND: Teledermoscopy uses telecommunication technologies to transfer images of pigmented skin lesions via the Internet for teleconsultation. DESIGN: Clinical and dermoscopic images of 66 and 43 pigmented skin lesions achieved in two consecutive studies were sent by e-mail to dermatologists with different degrees of experience in dermoscopy for a telediagnosis. All lesions included in these studies were surgically excised and diagnosed histopathologically. RESULTS: The diagnostic concordance between the face-to-face diagnosis and the telediagnosis was 91% in the first study, whereas, in the second study, it varied from 76.7%-95.3%. The accuracy of the diagnoses in both studies was not related to the quality of the images, but did highly depend on the level of diagnostic difficulty of a given pigmented skin tumor and on the level of experience of each observer. CONCLUSIONS: Teleconsultation of dermoscopic images of pigmented skin lesions via e-mail provides a similar degree of diagnostic accuracy as face-to-face diagnosis when the diagnosis is made by a dermatologist confident with dermoscopy.
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